NAMING THE STREETS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43314, 16 April 1908, Page 2

NAMING THE STREETS.

Sir, —Will any of your readers kindly enlighten melon a little matter of some importance ? Briefly put, it is simply this: Have the streets running through this Borough any names. If so what are they ? As a frequent visitor to this ever popular and growing health resort I write to you in all earnest, feeling that my efforts for enlightenment will sooner or later bear fruit, and I trust it will not be long. On numerous occasions I have had necessity to inquire where certain friends of mine and business people lived, and the answers were, in a great majority of cases, somewhat after the following strain ‘ Oh, yes, Mr So and So ; he lives “up at the back,” or “ Certainly, with pleasure, Mrs , she lives down near the river/* and a few others replied by saying: “ Down by the railway station,” “ the other side of the Domain/’ ** near the brick kiln,” and so on, until a person begins to think what sort of a city he has struck. Surely His Worship the Mayor—who I am given to understand is a real live man ; and one who has done a great deal for the welfare of this borough, will see that a few name plates are put up-r----that is provided the streets have been designated. I consider it is about time this “ up-at-the-back down-by-the-river,” business had ceased. Trusting you will see your way to insert this.—l am, etc., Advance.